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November/December 1991             Issue 41

BONFIRE NIGHT Saturday 2nd November 7.0 p.m. start Donations of fireworks to Mrs Hutton on the night or before. BARBECUE   HOT DOGS   SOUP BURGERS   TOFFEE   APPLES DRINKS

QUIZ NIGHT Saturday 16th November Arrive 7.30 for 8.0 Tickets £3 (includes the meal) from Tim James, 25 Church Rd, Mrs Rolston at the Fox, or the vicar. Funds raised for village organisations (Toddlers, Youth Club, Church etc) and Xmas parties.

CHURCH NEWS

Remembrance

Remembering is so much a part of who we are - it is one of the hardest things about our parents or friends growing old, when they lose their memory. We can't imagine knowing who we are apart from our memories so we rightly cherish them. We even have a national memory for things like 1066 and all that.

I was sitting tight well, crouched up - in my mother's womb during the Dunkirk evacuation, while Fr Peter Mayhew was beetling along the road to the beach telling his 'mate' who had appendicitis that this wasn't the time. And yet ... I remember Dunkirk as well as I remember the assassination of President Kennedy. We are reminded of the trenches and the gas chambers by newsreel on TV but there is much to be said for remembering with horror the evil of war and with sorrow the innocent victims of war together for two minutes a year, just as Christians remember Jesus, together each Sunday at his table. Why?

What we remember best partly makes us who we are. The best part of what we carry with us from the past is the bundle of memories. And our memories from the past often tie up with our hopes for the future to create the web of meaning we inhabit. A person with no hopes for the future is as lost as a person with no precious memories from the past. And yet just as the past has to be cherished if it is not to disappear, the future has to be cultivated if it is to be worth hoping for. Hopes have to be put into words and reached out for and taken hold of in faith and imagination, not allowed to wither on the branch and fall dead to the ground, as often happens in lives lived without depth.

The big memory trip of the year is on its way the countdown to Christmas will have begun when the Link appears. November 3rd is the 8th Sunday before Christmas. Time to prepare. Friendships to keep in a state of repair by cards and presents, family to make happy with food and drink, the wider human family to be remembered with a

The invitations in the rush and tumble of exhausting jobs and even more exhausting hobbies are out and the St Andrews team hope the rest will join them to sing carols and gather round the crib and open their hearts to what it's all about. The hopes and fears of all the years will meet in us that night.

How silently, how silently, the wondrous gift is given So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of his heaven. No ear can hear his coming, but in this world of sin Where meek hearts will receive him still,

the dear Christ enters in.

Baptisms
On the 25th August, Kate Ellyn Macarthur, daughter of Andrew and Ann, and on the 8th September Jade Sarah Berry, daughter of Mark and Diane, and Emma Louise Montague-Watkins, daughter of Brian and Tracy.

R.I.P.

Congratulations

Youth Club

Harvest Festival and Supper

WINNERS OF PARISH FETE SPORTS

Problems on mobile homes

Pause for Thought

This promise is for you, for you who want something.
For you who know that you have a thirst that has not yet been satisfied.
For you who have heard of a water that refreshes beyond compare.
For you who feel burdened, who feel that you have reached the depths and want to rise.
For you who are on top of the world, but who know that all the world does not have enough.
For you who are full of fears and anxieties, for you who feel hardened and closed.
For you who are full of eagerness and enthusiasm, for you who want all a human being can have.
For all, there is a promise, a promise made by God, by the one who made you.
He offers you a promise, a free gift of new life.
He offers it to you freely, just as he created you freely, because he loves you.

Linda Parrott

News for the disabled
The newly-formed Oxfordshire Disability Information Network now provides computer advice for disabled people - benefit rates, local transport schemes, gadgets to make life easier, special arrangements for finding a job, contacts for pressure groups etc. To find out where your nearest information terminal is (one is at Cowley, another at Blackbird Leys Leisure Centre) ring Joan Stonham on Oxford 810262.

The Fox Inn

As we saw in the article on 'Rock Farm' James Morrell the brewer of Oxford bought the Sandford estate in 1828, and included in the sale was a small detached parcel of ground on the south side of Church Street (now Church Road) of just over an acre, on which stood three small cottages.

By the time of the 1841 census we find that a room in one of these cottages was recorded as a Beer-house, kept by one William Boucher, beer seller, born in Littlemore, aged 53 years. As no record of a beer house appears before this date, it is most likely that it had been established under the Beer House Act of 1830. This Act allowed ale and beer to be sold from any small establishment such as a cottage or outhouse on payment of two guineas for an excise licence, without the need of a justices licence.

These humble establishments were usually kept by labourers or common tradesmen and were in the main frequented by the working population, usually agricultural labourers, as a place where they could drink and talk freely, beyond the eyes and ears of their masters (for remember this was 1830) although they were widely condemned as a resort of drunkards and poachers.

William died in 1861, and from the census taken in the same year, his widow Hannah is recorded as the beer house keeper in Church Street, while her son Stephen, then aged 33, had become the first landlord of Morrells new beer

What Morrell. had required was an inn on the London road which would catch both the London bound traveller and also those going over the ferry to Abingdon, an ideal situation in that it stood halfway along a long drawn out hill, much steeper in those days, where a carter could both rest his horses and refresh himself.

The date of building appears to be around 1853, a year when much building was going on at Sandford farm, the row of four model farm cottages and the new beer house built at the same time.

By 1871 William Eaton was the landlord, yet it does not yet appear to have achieved the status of an inn, and still recorded as the Fox beer house, although what I imagine to have been the first sign had the legend The Fox Inn, said to have been painted by one of Morrell's friends. Unfortunately this old sign which was probably unique was removed c.1960. The original beer house in Church Street and the old cottages eventually disappeared to form part of 'Elmslea' garden, circa 1970.

William Boucher	1841-1861		Church Street
Stephen Boucher	1861-1871	)	Fox Tavern
Wiliam Eaton	1871-1895	)
Frederick Hills	1897-?	)
Herbert Stansfield	1903-1907	)	The Fox,
James Messenger	1911 - ?	)	London Road
Ireson?		)
Charles Barrett	1919 -	)

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SANDFORD ON THAMES PARISH COUNCIL

At the meeting of the Parish Council held on Monday 2nd September 8 members were present. Mr Michael Butt, Chief Planning Officer, attended to discuss Templars Court etc.

Planning
1. Templars Court: PC is concerned by an apparent stalemate between Magdalen College and SODC, the dilapidated state of the listed buildings and possible future development on landscaped area of site. Mr Butt said negotiations were continuing. The principle of hotel use is acceptable but the scale and nature of extensions were causing concern.

2. Breaches of Planning: 47 and 65 Henley Rd - access made without planning permission. In the past applications had been rejected by SODC because of need to cross pavements - danger to pedestrians - or insufficient space for turning area. Mr Butt said both had been invited to supply applications, and the County Surveyor would advise in respect of safety, etc.
Brewhouse, Henley Rd - front boundary wall in excess of 1m in height. Mr Butt made a note of this.

3. 103 Henley Rd - extension. The PC asked why the Council had asked for the extension to be set back from existing 'so it would look like an extension' but on receiving the planning application, SODC then requested that a new set of plans be prepared showing the extension in line with the existing. It had been pointed out by the architect that this is a unique pair of semis, being rough-cast and set back from other dwellings in the road, and 2m wider than the other half. Mr Butt said original planning officer had requested extension to be set back, but after a visit to the site it was decided to agree to the extension being flush with the existing building.

Rock Farm Lane - Future. Deferred. Councillors were asked to visit the site and prepare suggestions for its landscaping. Clerk was asked to make enquiries regarding grants, loans etc.

Village Hall Extension/Improvements Mr Gladwell reported that the Village Hall Committee were at present working hand to mouth, and had no forward plan for improvements/extension to the Village Hall. The Chairman suggested that the PC might like to look at ways in which capital could be made available for this purpose from the precept.

Rock Farm Lane - Street Lighting The PC approved the recommendation made by the County Council regarding number and position of lighting columns on first phase.

Garden Competition - Donation from PC Request for £25 donation towards Garden Competition approved.

OALC - Executive Committee The PC declined to nominate a candidate.

Biennial National Conference of Local Councillors 1992 The PC decided not to send a representative to this Conference.

Environmental Protection Act 1990 - Part IV Litter (Animal Droppings Order) The provisions of the Act apply to dog faeces on certain land - this includes any public walk or pleasure ground (Wharf), recreation area (Church Rd recreation field), footpath which gives access to retail premises, picnic site, off street parking place and all public highways. Mr Matthews to investigate whether the PC

Paid cheques The PC agreed that they would continue to require all paid cheques for audit purposes, at cost of £1.80 per statement.

Review of Primary School Provision. Paper circulated. The PC would write to the LEA in support of the retention of small primary schools.

Travelling and Subsistence Allowances It was agreed to increase mileage allowance from l5p to 20p per mile.

Insurance Clerk to ask for quote from Mutual Insurance to up-date the policy.

Cost of Elections PC approved this expenditure.

Glass Recycling There are no suitable sites in Sandford at present.

Planning: Sandford Height residential development (amendment) - no objection.

Income	£		Expenditure	£
Mrs Tuckwell			Oxfordshire County Council
Nil			Telephone (May)	35.14
			Miss Burra - Loan	1000.00
			Monard Electrical (VH)	201.67
			St John Ambulance donation	10.00
			Morley's (VH)	22.62
			Reimbursement for cleaning
			materials for Village Hall	34.06
			OALC fees for seminar	10.00
			British Telecom (August)	26.30
			Petrol for mower (M.Leary)	5.20

General Information on Village and Local Organisations

Clerk to the Parish Council: Mrs C. Leary, 1 Riverview
Citizens Advice Bureau: St Aldates, Oxford
Samaritans: Iffley Road, Oxford (722122)
Acorn: a drop-in centre for support. Cowley Community
Centre, Barns Rd, Mon-Thurs 10 - 3 (716633)

EMERGENCY SERVICES (phone nos): Gas 727111; Electricity 85-4304; Water 85-7911.

SHOULD YOU BE RECYCLING?

If you would like to do more to reduce waste by recycling old packaging, Oxfordshire County Council produce a useful leaflet (Recycling in Oxfordshire) listing all the centres in Oxfordshire. Examples nearest to Sandford are:

* drinks and food tins can go to Redbridge Park and Ride car park
* newspapers and magazines also at Redbridge, at the Oxfam Paper Bank, 1st Saturday of the month 9.0-1.0
* a minimum of ten sacks of waste paper can be collected from offices or businesses by Oxfam (ring 742000)
* nearest bottle banks are at Sainsbury's Heyford Hill, Redbridge Park and Ride, and (coming soon) the John Allen Centre, Cowley.
* and the Waste Reception Centre at Redbridge takes all kinds of waste, including scrap metal, oil, fridges and freezers (open Mon-Fri 8.30 - 5.30 and weekends 8.30 - 4.0

CHEMISTS' ROTA SERVICE

November/December

Closest to Sandford area only

The following Chemist will be open for dispensing from 5.30 - 6.30 p.m. Mondays to Fridays, and 12 noon - 1.0 p.m. Sundays and Public Holidays, on the week commencing:

November 3rd	Kingswood Chemists, 103/5 Pound Way, Cowley Centre
November 10th	Emerald Pharmacy, 34 Cowley Road, Littlemore
November 17th	W.H. Green (Chemists) Ltd., 8 Rose Hill Parade
November 24th	M.J. Proctor, 252 Cowley Road, Oxford
December 1st	M.J. Proctor, 158 Oxford Road, Cowley
December 8th	P.L. Jenner, 236/8 Cowley Road, Oxford
December 15th	Kingswood Chemists, 103/5 Pound Way, Cowley Centre
December 22nd	Emerald Pharmacy, 34 Cowley Road, Littlemore
(December 25th/26th N.J. Proctor, 252 Cowley Road, Oxford)
December 29th	W.H. Green (Chemists) Ltd., 8 Rose Hill Parade
January 1st	P.L. Jenner, 236/8 Cowley Road, Oxford

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